How interesting, Stephen!
Although when you ask about what road American Education is travelling
down, I cannot help but wonder: is there only ONE American Education. I
thought that this might just barely be true about Swedish Education: a
small country with a fairly homogeneous tradition (that was centrally
governed for a very long time). And even so what Swedish education is
today, not least in terms of the architecture of its settings, bears
witness to past conflicts between traditionalism and progressivism, shows
the layered traces of changes in municipal economy, and is torn by social
divisions. Something of the current outlook on education is cemented into a
building when it is first erected, but soon enough spaces will be adapted
to new functions, new parts will be built... aren't school buildings often
patchworks: kludges, even?
So, let me ask a couple of questions back: your project is a design
project, are you envisioning some kind of ideal architecture for the
education of the future (starting from scratch, utopia of the late 90s,
which might be interesting) or are you envisioning a re-design project
(adapting something existing for the needs of today and tomorrow, which
sounds to me both more interesting and more difficult)?
Eva
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Dr Eva Ekeblad
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Dept. of Education & Educational Research
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